Aluminium menace in tropical wells: The weathering that made the plains of Malawi is still at work, releasing aluminium into wells. But no one knows how widespread the contamination is
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New-wave mathematics: Seeing is believing - pictures from a mathematician
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New-wave mathematics
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Growing threats to peat: The use of peat for growing plants is a mainstay of British horticulture. But unless alternatives are found quickly, the country's dwindling peat bogs could disappear altogether
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How refugees survive: As wars swell the ranks of the displaced in the developing world, relief agencies are asking themselves why they are still failing to meet people's basic needs
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Europe's ambitions lost in space: Tight budgets and conflicting interests are threatening the European Space Agency's biggest projects. The agency has only a few months left to solve these earthly problems
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Technology
Technology: Diabetics cast light on blood sugar
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Technology: California cleaning forces fuel reforms
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Technology: How drugs 'sneak' past the cell barrier
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Technology: London's water off to a clean start . . .
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Science: Coral beware - starfish spawning tonight
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Science: Old star upstages the big bang show
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Science: Conservative cosmology
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Science: Will snakes shed their poisonous image?
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Science: Chemists strike lucky with clover-leaf supercage
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Diabetes on the run?
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Rio plans to clean up its dirty beaches
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Pernicious pesticides
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Fouled birds
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Fishy friendship follows frequent feeding
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Space blues
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Termite troubles
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Chain reaction
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Set tax, or else . . .
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Science: Molecular 'chimera' saves chimps from HIV
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Safeguards go up in smoke in rush to build incinerators
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The land that time forgot opens to tourism
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Baltic bombs surface in fishing nets
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Gulf War pinpoints gaps in US communications
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Fair deal denied to people displaced by dam
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Delhi doctors afraid to treat HIV-positive women
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Hopes rise for India's own contraceptive
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On board the Stanford Supersaver to Mars
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Hubble's gyros put NASA in a spin
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Thatcher's X-ray vision leaves astronomers out in the cold
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Nile crocodiles cut Brazil's cayman down to size
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'Savage' cuts slash research budget by half
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Ministers clash over rules for modified organisms
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Curable cholera kills in Africa
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Opinion
Features
Aluminium menace in tropical wells: The weathering that made the plains of Malawi is still at work, releasing aluminium into wells. But no one knows how widespread the contamination is
Features
New-wave mathematics: Seeing is believing - pictures from a mathematician
Features
New-wave mathematics
Features
Growing threats to peat: The use of peat for growing plants is a mainstay of British horticulture. But unless alternatives are found quickly, the country's dwindling peat bogs could disappear altogether
Features
How refugees survive: As wars swell the ranks of the displaced in the developing world, relief agencies are asking themselves why they are still failing to meet people's basic needs
Features
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Review: The advance of the green guards
Books & Arts
Arts / Exhibition of West African brasses and bronzes at the British Museum
Books & Arts
Forum: The customer is always right - A new look at science education
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Forum: Building bridges with the experts - The advantages of low cunning
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Forum: Take a lesson from the economists - Loose theorising can have its advantages
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Thistle Diary - Comment from Westminster: A question of honour
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Forum: Whatever happened to Brand X? - Trouble with miracle ingredients
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Review: Corrections
Books & Arts
Review: Consider their ways
Books & Arts
Review: Complexity is the measure of modernity
Books & Arts
Review: Word crunching for scientists
Books & Arts
Talking Point: Green light for precautionary science
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